Now a common sight on dinner tables and in supermarket fridges, chickens have not always been considered food, and for centuries were celebrated and even worshipped, new research suggests. Rice ...

The old existential question about which came first—the chicken or the egg—has had a meaningful breakthrough, as a team of researchers report a new age and location for the first unambiguously ...

(CN) — In the age old riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday suggests the answer might actually be ...

The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study. The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of ...

New research transforms our understanding of the circumstances and timing of the domestication of chickens, their spread across Asia into the west, and reveals the changing way in which they were ...

The chicken’s status as one of the world’s most popular foods—both for its meat and eggs—was not always the case. New research from the University of Exeter finds that ancient chickens lived ...

Everyone has heard the joke, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” But did you ever wonder who the original “chicken” was? All domesticated chickens had to come from somewhere, even the topic of this ...

The red junglefowl – the wild ancestor of the chicken – is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study led by Frank Rheindt of the National ...